{"id":2436,"date":"2013-07-19T11:08:56","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T15:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlydias.org\/blog\/?p=2436"},"modified":"2013-07-19T11:08:56","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T15:08:56","slug":"what-was-said-to-the-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/what-was-said-to-the-rose\/","title":{"rendered":"What Was Said to the Rose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Jalal al-Din Rumi<\/p>\n<p>What was said to the rose that made it open<br \/>\nwas said to me here in my chest.<\/p>\n<p>What was told the Cypress that made it strong<br \/>\nand straight, what was<\/p>\n<p>whispered the jasmine so it is what it is, whatever made<br \/>\nsugarcane sweet, whatever<\/p>\n<p>was said to the inhabitants of the town of Chigil in<br \/>\nTurkestan that makes them<\/p>\n<p>so handsome, whatever lets the pomegranate flower blush<br \/>\nlike a human face, that is<\/p>\n<p>being said to me now. I blush. Whatever put eloquence in<br \/>\nlanguage, that&#8217;s happening here.<\/p>\n<p>The great warehouse doors open; I fill with gratitude,<br \/>\nchewing a piece of sugarcane,<\/p>\n<p>in love with the one to whom every that belongs!<\/p>\n<p><em>-Read at St. Lydia&#8217;s on July 14 and 15, 2013\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Jalal al-Din Rumi What was said to the rose that made it open was said to me here in my chest. What was told the Cypress that made it strong and straight, what was whispered the jasmine so it is what it is, whatever made sugarcane sweet, whatever was said to the inhabitants of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2436"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2438,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436\/revisions\/2438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}